Fast Tracks site for Printable Turnouts
Yep, Fast Tracks has 'em. NMRA also has downloadable templates. Somebody mentioned Oak Hill also. I don't know about downloadable templates from them, but here's what I recently accomplished. Unfortunately no photos.
Our club layout has a steel mill I'm building, and I needed a turnout on a long, narrow, elevated ramp to put ore, limestone, and coke cars up on the "bins" with. Because of the narrowness of the ramp, any "conventional" turnout less than a #10, or less than a #6 wye, would shoot the divergent route off at too steep an angle to keep it on the elevated ramp.
So, I used 2 Fast Tracks templates and left over Oak Hill rails and PCB and wood ties to hand build a #7 wye turnout with a #4 wye lead-in throat to the #7 frog and #7 point/closure rails. The #4 wye template was cut 3 ties short of the frog, then grafted (taped) into position on the #7 template. That altered Fast Tracks template was then fastened to a suitable surface, and the Oak Hill PCB ties spiked into position. The Oak Hill rails were then soldered into position according to the Fast Tracks template.
There was some adjusting of the Oak Hill rails to the Fast Tracks template, but only a minor amount, nothing major. Oak Hill rails, frog, and guard rails are pre-cut for Oak Hill templates, but worked just fine. Attention MUST be paid to where and how the point rails move in against the stock rails, depending on what you are actually creating. Because I used a #4 lead running up to a #7 frog, filing of the rail bases and rail heads was required for the (long #7) point/closure rails to fit properly against the (short #4) stock rails.
Once all the proper rails were soldered into position on the PCB's, gaps were cut where needed in the PCB ties and rails, flextrack added to the lead and divergent routes, it was jumpered off of the layout, and the mill's SW9 switcher and ore cars successfully worked back and forth looking for problems.
The frog wasn't quite in the best position, so it and it's rails and guard rails had to be unsoldered and moved about 3/64", the point of the from filed down from razor sharp, and tested again. This time it passed muster.
Yellow painters tape was slit lengthwise into 2 narrow strips, then the strips fastened to the template sticky side up. Then the wooden ties were correctly positioned on the yellow tape on template, followed by masking tape applied to the tops of the wooden ties, so that they could be lifted off the template as a "unit" and properly positioned on the ramp on the layout. They were glued into place last night on the ramp (ramp was smeared with white glue), and after about an hour for the glue to begin to set, the yellow tape very carefully peeled off, and the actual turnout placed into position to check alignment of the wooden ties. By golly, it fit perfectly! I then removed the turnout, placed the original build board onto the ties, and carefully put several bins of wood screws onto the build board to weight it down. I'll check it this coming Thursday.
Cost? Zero. The Fast Tracks templates were free. All the Oak Hill rails, PCBs, and ties were left overs. I did have lots of kibbitzers and advisors looking over my shoulder, but, hey, some of the advice was worth the torment!
Keep the greasy side down!